Not sure if you're joking but the IDF isn't lacking for recruits and they pretty openly celebrate killing Palestinian civilians..

The IDF recruitment is mandatory, they recruit roughly half of those eligible, and the vast majority will never see combat. IDF combat troops aren’t a bunch of bloodthirsty relatives of people who died to terror attacks, they are 18 year olds doing what they’re legally bound to do.

Want to compare the number of dead on each side?

That’s an irrelevant comparison. The dead on the Israeli side isn’t lower due to Iran, Hamas, PIJ, Hezbollah and the Houthis being nicer folks, they try to kill as many civilians as they can, Israel just happens to have one of the best missile and rocket defense systems in the world, and is also a tiny country, so it’s easier to provide defense coverage. These regime and organizations have fired tens of thousands of missiles, rockets and drones on Israeli civilians over the last 2.5 years, Israel has intercepted around 98%. Without those interceptions Israeli casualties would’ve been in the six figures range by now, and their infrastructure devastated.

When talking about morality, intentions and actions matter more than results. Say someone was trying to detonate a bomb in a crowded train station and failed - does that make them less of a terrorist?

You seem to be making the distinction between 'random people' and state actors in regards to violent responses, there isn't really a difference.. and millions of Muslims died as a response to 9/11, so that's a pretty disgusting comment.

I am making a difference between people joining an armed organization to avenge someone, and people who are a part of an organized state military because this is their job. An IRGC soldier firing missiles on civilian population isn’t a terrorist, they may be a war criminal but not a terrorist. Someone bombing ambulances in the UK simply because they are owned by a Jewish NGO is a terrorist. There’s a huge difference between the two.

Go ahead and lecture a guy who just lost his all family, his home, his future about racism and bigotry. Think he'll listen to you?

That’s actually quite rare. Most terrorists seem to have an ethnicity driven motivation, as in “someone in your ethnic group has attacked my ethnic group, so now I will attack you”. That doesn’t seem to apply only to Jews, we’ve seen too many sectarian wars in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq etc.

One thing people here love to ignore is that Israel has over 2m Israeli Arab citizens, most of them have the exact same ethnicity as Palestinians living in the WB and Gaza. Considering thousands of Israeli Jews have died by Iran, Hamas and co, would you think it’s common for Israeli Jews to go on random killing sprees in Israeli Arab towns? It isn’t. Considering many of those Israeli Arabs have family, friends and acquaintances among Palestinian population, would you think it’s common for them to go on killing sprees against Israeli Jews? It isn’t.

Sorry to say, but ethnicity-based vendetta is a very primitive thing that we see mostly in Africa and the Middle East.

I'm honestly not sure how do I do explain the concept of hopelessness to a robot, so I'll settle for this instead, you are obviously interested in maintaining the status quo, feel free to do that.. ignore the root of the issue at your own peril. Israel will never know peace then.

I’m not interested in keeping the status quo, I’m interested in working towards peace, which goes through all sides to stop thinking about their side as an innocent victim, and to start seeing the pain and fear of the other side. This applies to the many Israelis that think all Arabs are out to get them and that war is the only solution, and it also applies to the many Arabs and Iranians that think Jews are evil and that Israel must be destroyed. When the conversation stops being sports-like, our team and your team, and instead puts all innocent civilians in one bucket regardless of citizenship, ethnicity and religion - that’s when we can make progress.